Kyle Nash loved painting miniature figures, playing card games, and was always right, his friends said.
Nash was in his fourth year of interactive multimedia and design (IMD), a small program at Carleton.
“The thing that drove us the craziest about Kyle was that he would argue with us all the time—except he’d always be right, because he had this massive bulk of knowledge that he could tap into,” said his friend, co-worker, and classmate Éva Demers-Brett.
“At one of our last project meetings, Kyle and I ended up having an hour-long argument about whether there was dust in space,” she said. He was right, she said.
Nash had a sense of humour that was unique and irreplaceable, Demers-Brett said.
He was always good natured, said his close friend and fellow IMD group member Wilhelm Johannes Steyn.
“I don’t think I ever saw him get mad at anyone. He could be hard-headed when it came to projects but he was a damn hard worker,” Steyn said via Facebook.
Demers-Brett said the program of about 50 students is a tight-knit family. The day of the crash, they immediately noticed Nash was missing.
“We find out about the bus accident and someone is like, ‘well that’s on Kyle’s route.’ So we text him and he doesn’t respond,” she said.
“It was a really horrible, horrible day because anytime someone came into the room we would all just turn around. We were all just waiting for him to come, and he never showed up.”
Demers-Brett said one of the hardest things will now be for her, Steyn, and their fellow group members to continue the work on their year-long project. It was Nash’s brainchild, she said.
“I think it’s important to make sure the essence that he put into our project is kept. We want to honour his memory,” she said.
